Rodrigo Santoro Quotes

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.

I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

For better or worse, I don't necessarily categorize myself as a method actor; I'm not going to make claims that I stayed in character 24/7.

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I'm playing, and everything else goes out the window. I forget about everything. I try to get everything else out of my head.

I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

As an actor, your first priority is the work - immersing yourself in the role, backstory, and bringing that to screen.

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which the character would normally do. Maybe that's the way I function as an actor, and I believe in it. And that's how I try and portray a character.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

I make a playlist for every character I portray. Music plays a huge part in helping me understand a character. Every time I get a new role, I will take a chunk of time to just sit and listen to a bunch of songs and select the ones that make sense in my mind for that character. I can't even explain how much it helps me.

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.